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    Comment #41683683

    You’re missing a few factors: 1. The US would’ve been paying Russia about 10x the cost if SpaceX didn’t exist. 2. Boeing was awarded a ~$3B contract within the Artemis mission and,…

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    Comment #41683639

    “Normal” and “common” would still be the last words on my mind considering the amount of planning and money that goes into sending people to space and back. The only normal situati…

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    Comment #41674298

    In this particular case, the person of interest published 800 widely cited papers. That seems like a considerable collapse.

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    Comment #41230522

    “NASA considering sending FlossX to extract moss from teeth”

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    Comment #40924584

    Maybe they meant to reference nix-direnv?

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    Comment #40755353

    > Hmm. "We rub our Tubes with Buck Skin", he says in the same letter. My immature brain didn’t get past this sentence.

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    Comment #40755340

    Using the word “accumulator” wouldn’t be enough to differentiate batteries from capacitors, inductors, etc. which are also accumulators.

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    Comment #40191754

    > So it scares me a bit when something like Ozepmic pops up and tons of people jump on it, without knowing the long term effects that might appear. Test in production. YOLO!

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    Comment #36831045

    One could also argue that this continuous feedback loop is the scientific process in action.

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    Comment #36756973

    It helps though with remembering where you are in your codebase. Rather than cluttering my brain with the info that Nerdtree provides, I can instead use the extra brainpower for ot…

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    Comment #36629201

    The problem with auto updates for daemons and services is that the maintainer cannot possibly account for all the different ways their software is used to be able to guarantee that…

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    Comment #35195921

    I have a better idea. Let’s call it The Federal Reserve.

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    Comment #35107544

    Too much idle cash is a wasted asset. As for money markets, don’t those get invested in treasury bills/notes anyway? Why go through a “middleman” when one has enough volume to inve…

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    Comment #34802325

    58 sources according to ground.news: https://ground.news/article/ohio-train-derailment-leaves-tox...

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    Comment #34768174

    Ah. Excellent, thanks!

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    Comment #34758146

    I love the zero-install feature for sure! I noticed that SLIDES.md could also be read directly so I’m curious if we could just rename it to README.md and then, probably as an optio…

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    Comment #34749858

    > “the biggest problem with wanting to ‘cure’ blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disabilities over those who are disabled.“ What is this …

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    Comment #34748722

    Wait, so: 1. Some HP video game is release; 2. Users who bought it mentioned it in mastodon.lol; 3. Other users want to ban them because...JK Rowling is...a Nazi(?); 4. Other users…

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    Comment #34748043

    When you say “Marketing” do you really mean just the subsets “Marketing Communications,” and “Sales,” or do you also mean the things needed to find product-market fit?

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    Comment #34747241

    Sounds like you’ve just supported the point about fan noise being a good approximation for battery efficiency.

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    Comment #34663950

    It’s not built on WebAuthn but it could work with it. WebAuthn is essentially just an alternative to typing in your password.

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    Comment #34512126

    I'd probably start with: "What is the main argument of the book?" if it's non-fiction.

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    Comment #34512095

    Google Maps for human knowledge! That's such an apt analogy(?) right there. Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #33704531

    As long as you don’t mention Stack Overflow, I agree!

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    Comment #33690866

    Oh, sorry! Ummm…were you saying something?